Transcribed from the 1822 J. Hatchard and Son edition by DavidPrice. Many thanks to the British Library for making theircopy available.
THE CHARACTER AND HAPPINESSOF
THEM THAT DIE IN THE LORD.
A
SERMON,
PREACHEDOCTOBER 13, 1822,
IN
PARK CHAPEL, CHELSEA,
ONOCCASION
Of the Death of the late
Rev. JOHN OWEN, M.A.
MINISTER OFPARK CHAPEL, AND ONE OF THE SECRETARIES OF
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLESOCIETY.
BY
WILLIAM DEALTRY, B.D. F.R.S.
RECTOR OFCLAPHAM, SURREY, AND OF WATTON, HERTS; AND
LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE,CAMBRIDGE.
PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.
London:
PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD AND SON,
187, PICCADILLY.
1822.
PRINTED BYJ. S. HUGHES, 66, PATERNOSTER, ROW.
p. iiiTO
THE PRESIDENT,
THE VICE-PRESIDENTS,
AND THE OTHER MEMBERS
OF THE
British and Foreign Bible Society,
THIS SERMON
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
p. 1ASERMON.
Revelations xiv. 13.
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me,Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord fromhenceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that theymay rest from their labours; and their works do followthem.
The solemnity with which thedoctrine contained in this passage is introduced, and theremarkable way in which it is confirmed, declare loudly its valueand importance.
Amidst the visions of the Apocalypse, St. John had just beheldan emblematical representation of the Church of Christ, and ofits Almighty Protector: a Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, with ahundred and forty and four thousand, having his Father’sname written p.2in their foreheads: the faithful followers of their Lordin a corrupt and degenerate age; the first fruits to God and theLamb; when his attention was directed to three angels, chargedseverally with the high commissions of bearing the everlastinggospel to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people: ofproclaiming the utter overthrow of the mystic Babylon; and ofdenouncing the divine vengeance upon all her adherents. Thedays thus prefigured were to be days of hardship and persecution:the gospel, it is intimated, would not prevail without aconflict, nor would Babylon